Detailed information on channel revenue and program expenditure. Revenue data includes splits for carriage revenue, direct to consumer subscriptions and advertising. Programming data covers spend on original content, acquisitions and sport.

The Channel Line-up & Availability Database provides continuously updated information on the availability and distribution of pay TV and free to air channels across traditional broadcast and online platforms.

This database contains pricing and specification data for TV Sets. The data is collected monthly off a selection of stores for each country, with the local price, price in euros and the price in dollars collected for each model.

European pay TV group Sky has launched a new standalone virtual pay TV service in Austria. Sky X provides access to live TV channels across all genres as well as on-demand content, dependant on the subscription tier chosen.

Channels and Programming Intelligence has introduced a new methodology to estimate revenues from subscription on traditional platforms. The new approach, applied to an initial group of 22 countries will significantly increase the number of groups and operators covered from 38 to 136. The new groups covered from today include all major pay TV platforms, whether or not they operate their own channels.

New regulation signed off by the French Ministry of Culture has significantly reduced the windowing of movie titles following their theatrical release. The likes of Canal Plus will be able to show films on their pay TV services as early as six months after release in theatres, a reduction of four months from previous regulation.

Canal Plus has won back rights to the Premier League in France for the three seasons from 2019/20 to 2021/22. The pay TV group is understood to have won the bidding against incumbent Altice, which is paying €115 million a season in the current cycle. The deal is a boost for Canal Plus, which has lost rights to France's Ligue 1 from 2020/21. Altice also has rights to the Champions League and Europa League in France until 2020/21.

This report is based on analysis of the latest quarterly financial reports filed by 30 publicly-listed TV and video companies in the US, Japan and Europe. They include the broadcasting and cable network divisions of major US groups, the leading Japanese commercial broadcasters, and the largest publicly listed TV companies in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden.

Comcast has outbid 21st Century Fox to win control of Sky, with an offer valuing the UK-based pay TV group at £30.6 billion ($40 billion). In the third and final round of the auction run by the UK's takeover panel on Saturday 22 September, Comcast made a final offer of £17.28 per Sky share, trumping a bid of £15.67 from Fox. Comcast launched its challenge for Sky in April with an initial offer of £12.50, valuing Sky at £22 million. Sky shares closed at £15.85 last Friday.

New deals for domestic rights to four of the five leading sports leagues in Europe were signed in the first part of the year. What were the outcomes of these auction rounds, and what do tell us about the state of play in the European sports rights market?

The RMC Sport premium channels were added to the CanalSat satellite service in France on 18 September after SFR and Canal Plus group reached agreement. The four RMC Sport channels and RMC News will be available for an additional €9 a month for existing subscribers and €19 a month for new subscribers. The agreement was reached on the day the first group phase matches of the 2018/19 UEFA Champions League season - to which SFR owns the rights - kicked off.

Audiences are increasingly viewing video content on demand and online—but sport remains embedded in the linear TV experience, aggregating mass audiences on broadcast TV and underpinning the value proposition of subscription. So how will sport—especially live sport—migrate online?

The latest research by IHS Markit shows that Netflix has a substantial lead over providers both global and local in the French OTT subscription video market and will maintain this lead over the next five years.

Analysis of changes in television viewing behaviour across broadcast and digital platforms across the big five European markets. In this report, IHS Markit analysts examine key trends across linear, PVR-timeshifted, pay-TV VoD and online video viewing.

Since rolling out worldwide in 2016, Amazon and Netflix have stepped up original production, both in the US and key international territories. IHS Markit has anlaysed the streaming platform's original production and assess what it means for the global entertainment business.

The Western Europe pay TV and online video market monitor provides an in-depth insight into the key trends affecting the subscription video market in 2017. It includes data and analysis on pay TV operators, their subscribers and revenues, and the impact of online TV services on pay TV growth.

The Central and Eastern Europe pay TV market monitor provides an in-depth insight into the key trends affecting the pay TV market in the CEE region in 2017. It includes data and analysis on pay TV operators, their subscribers and revenues, key M&A activity in the region, and the impact of online TV services on pay TV growth. The report focuses on the top eight CEE markets; Poland, Russia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Serbia and Bulgaria.